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 Plains of War wrote:
Dude, this blog is amazing! the conversion work is superb! Please post more soon!!

Seconded! Those dreads are brilliant

Cheers

The command Squad will be next

I have finally started to get some work done on the command squad:



Still lots to go but there are a few little 'bumps' that I need to iron out with the unit before I will be able to finish them. I will be the first to admit that they aren't necessarily the best armed/equipped unit from a gaming perspective... but I don't game so it doesn't concern me too much.

As usual, I have added extra details and other things, in my weekly blog post:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/its-just-case-of-getting-there.html

I have now finished the commander:



...and will be moving onto the next member of the squad soon. I have also been working on the second primaris psyker/Beastman Jedi and have been preping some miniatures for paint (amongst other things). There is more information and pictures on my blog here:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/we-have-commander.html

Impressive sculpting on that commander! It blends in so naturally with the plastic itself.

Just wonderful sculpting there - Bravo!

Thank you

Four more to go and then I will start painting some

The painting has started:



All the information is here:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-start-of-next-phase.html

 Inso wrote:
The painting has started ...

THE PAINTENING!

Lil' painted beardy guys are looking good. Happy to see your modeling work feel the sting of the brush

- Salvage

Lovely work - i think C has more 'pop'.

I was thinking C with the hat/arm/leg green of B.

I agree. The green on the others is really nice, partly because it's the old squat colour!

The only issue I can think of with the lighter brown shade is that certain beard colours will blend in a bit too much

I hadn't thought about beard colours... but I guess there will always be times where something will clash/blend in... as long as there is a clear line of shade between the beard / jacket, I am sure it will be ok .

I may put a few more together to make sure that the chosen scheme works

(I may also see if I can find a more drab green... more US military drab green in colour than the fairly bright/dark greens I have).

Aaaand... that's it for now

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/with-bump.html

First off: at that commander! You are without a doubt the most talented greenstuff-er I've seen on these or any other forums. That beard + the lens/monocle are just mind-blowing.

Secondly: Yayyyyy! Paint!

Sorry I haven't got time for a more detailed feedback on A, B and C, but I'll get back to you!

So I saw some female head sprues over at Statuesque miniatures ( http://www.statuesqueminiatures.co.uk/ ) and thought that they would look good on a few Squats... so I bought some and fitted one on a Squat body. Initially they were slightly small but I padded out the cheeks and this is what I came up with:





I will be putting together a unit of these and will use them as veterans. Most will have berets . I just need to decide on what special/heavy weapons to give them now.

This is the first painted 'official' member of the army to be painted .

I absolutely love this, OP. But you realize that somewhere in the bowels of the Earth, beneath Nottingham, the GW fluff censorship team has already sensed the quality of your work and is having a collective aneurysm over your outstanding effort to paint the Squats in the light of legitimacy once again.

Ha ha - love it - great stuff as always!

But (let me be the first), where's the beard?

Cheers

... and there may be a couple of spare heads so don't be surprised if a bearded version turns up at some point

Hah, she looks awesome with her chubby little cheeks! Reminds me of Ricky Gervais.

She came out great! Nice work, can't wait to see the rest of the squad.

Cheers

I have another five (with berets) on the table at the moment. The trouble is, I tried using the plastic arms for them and they just looked so bad that I am going back to the arm sculpting process I have used for the other Squats... so they may take a little while to finish.

The plastic arms are really rubbish when used for two handed weapons :(

The five ladies have wire arms at the moment and will be getting some Green stuff added later . I'll get them converted and painted before I move on to the remaining 4 (3 special weapons and 1 comms).

The next five WIP:

Not something I am proud of (using ACTUAL Lego for conversions...) but I have been mulling something over and it just wouldn't go away :

Lovely blog of tiny retro goodness! Subbed, and fat Face method nicked

Cheers

Everything has wheels and things are moving along :

Is that the beginning of a Land Train?

I'm sorry but no... just five Chimera counts-as vehicles

very cool. I have been thinking of building a squat army but only have like 10 metal squats. But looking at the Chaos dwarf Infernal Guard I could possibly use them instead.

I'm not familiar with the Infernal Guard... are they GW or something else?

I know that people convert the recent GW Dwarf plastics by giving them SM Scout arms/weapons and SM packs and they look quite effective. You could also do what I did and keep an eye on EBay... plastic Squats turn up all the time and you can get some great bargains

As for my vehicles... The next stage...